I can’t think of a better place to get to know someone than a dark, buttered-popcorn–scented movie theater, avoiding each other’s gaze and conversation for hours on end. And if you’re like me (God bless you), you never go to the movies (or to your in-laws’) without a little bottle of something fun and at least 80 proof to keep your various lipsticks company. So cheers to Valentine’s Day with these adorable mini-bottles that will fit snugly in your bag as you head out to see Fifty Shades of Grey or Paddington or whatever else is coming to a theater near you.

It was supposed to be a subway-crushing, deliveryman-thwarting, city-stalling blizzard, but the flurries only coated New York City with light frosting, just enough for the perfect snowman and a day home from school. Photographer Daniel Arnold captured the city in its snow frenzy.

The beauty of photography is its ability to encapsulate an instant—and in 2014, Vanity Fair captured magnetic, glamorous, moments from Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Deneuve, Neil Patrick Harris, among so many others. We narrowed down the year’s most memorable and striking photographs.

More than 25,000 locals and visitors took to the freezing streets of Manhattan to protest the choking death of Eric Garner, and demand police accountability. Over the course of the four-hour march, some of the marchers told VF.com why they felt personally compelled to join the procession.

As soon as commercial jet travel became widespread in the late 1950s, the international elite built a lifestyle around it, flying from one glamorous destination to the next. Bruce Handy looks at a bygone era—almost unimaginable in this age of Travelocity, TripAdvisor, and jam-packed cabins—when airplanes were the luxurious province of movie stars, industrialists, heiresses, and playboys.